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Honey?? Hey the girl at the Burne Dairy suddenly started calling me that, after I said "ohhh good, the good looking girl's here" And she touches me when she hands me my change. Hmmmmmm
i agree. after a while, boyfriend or gilfriend does sound like if it does not have enough depth. and if they are not married, what can they say?
partner.
it did always connote some for of formal arrangement tho. like a business partner.
either way, i think people should be given the right to choose who they love and also choose how they refer to them. BF, GF, lover, partner, life mate, spouse, husband, play date, whatever.
none of my business.
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Originally Posted by CESpeed
They say partner becuase they are life partners. They can't use the term husband or wife (though some do) because they aren't legally married. Even hetro couples use the term partner when they have chosen not to legalize their union.
In this instance, the words "partner" and "spouse" are interchangeable.
I loathe the term "partner." It shows we've sort of "hit bottom" in emotional capacity.
The use of this word has now infiltrated non-English speaking Europe. It's crazy. Over there, I saw a flyer for an event, dance, or something where people could look for a "partner." I asked exactly what this meant. They said, "you know, a dance or something where guys go to look for girls or girls go to look for guys." I then explained that, in North America, it generally tends to mean a same-sex type of situation and you wouldn't see a flyer like that for the event they described.
This word, until recently, has almost ALWAYS meant a business associate. In fact, there was a scene in that good, but very weird, movie "American Beauty" where Scott Bakula shows up on a neighbor's doorstep, either to introuce himself or discuss an issue, and tells the neighbor about "his partner" to which the neighbor starts wondering what kind of "business" they are in. That was hilarious.
To me, it shows that nowadays, it's more of an "arrangement" than a "relationship."
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What about when they marry?
